We would like to include new docs with detailed steps for most popular questions. That way users can easily find help in the Welcome XAMPP easily. We will include the current FAQs https://www.apachefriends.org/faq_windows.html per platform and we are working on new "How to" guides. Checking most popular questions in the forum we started with the following ones for Windows, Linux and OS X:

- How to configure and enable FTP to access from other machines. How to configure it to give access for other developers.- How to configure Apache with VirtualHosts- Apache troubleshooting: common issues with Apache from the great Altrea's post at viewtopic.php?f=16&t=69784- How to deploy a PHP application from GitHub- How to create wildcard VirtualHosts- How to create/restore MySQL backups from command line and using phpMyAdmin- How to configure sendmail or phpMailer for sending emails- How to install Bitnami add-ons on top of XAMPP

We need your help to know which other topics should we include in the new Welcome page for XAMPP. Any suggestion will be welcome!

We will also add all the content of these guides in the ApacheFriends translation application http://translate.apachefriends.org/ so they will be also available for different languages soon

We also want to remove sample applications in the current XAMPP welcome page (like the CD collection example). They are a source of security issues and some users inadvertently leave them available from the outside. We fixed these security issues as soon as they were reported but we think it is better to remove these applications to avoid future security issues.

Actually I believe the XAMPP installer itself should be modified so that this problem would not exist out of the box, but the bare minimum until that is fixed is providing proper installation instructions that include changing the permissions as needed.

P.S. thanks to https://community.apachefriends.org/f/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=28892 for pointing me to this thread

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Well, these issues there are starting issues, so they have to be accessible even then Apache could not get started.

Beltran wrote:How to deploy a PHP application from GitHub

Great! I look forward to read this guide.

Beltran wrote:How to create/restore MySQL backups from command line and using phpMyAdmin

Again one very common issue, still on my todo for a guide.

Beltran wrote:How to configure sendmail or phpMailer for sending emails

I would like to read that.

Beltran wrote:How to install Bitnami add-ons on top of XAMPP[...]We will also add all the content of these guides in the ApacheFriends translation application http://translate.apachefriends.org/ so they will be also available for different languages soon

Okay. Great!

Beltran wrote:We need your help to know which other topics should we include in the new Welcome page for XAMPP. Any suggestion will be welcome!

I would like to see a structure change.

The central index.php should persist but should only contain the following information:- Information that is displayed if the page is not requested correct (opened in the browser directly) and how to solve this, or a simple link to the correct requestable URL- Maybe information about Apache starting issues (see above).This page should NOT contain a intransparent redirect because beginner commonly get confused.

The project folder of the welcome page should be renamed to something different. "xampp" as project folder can be confusing for beginners. Maybe "dashboard" is a good name for it, because it is something like a dashboard or could be.

Get rid of the /security section and the status page. They can be very confusing for beginners, because of false negatives. Issues after using the MySQL root password change or creating a folder protection are common.A better way would be a guide how to change the password the proper way.

Beltran wrote:We also want to remove sample applications in the current XAMPP welcome page (like the CD collection example). They are a source of security issues and some users inadvertently leave them available from the outside.

I don't wish to remove all of them completely, because i think they can be a great inspiration for beginners.But they should be simple enough and secure. They need a complete rewrite to get protected against SQL-Injections, Crosssite-Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This rewrite is still on my Todo-List.I would get rid of biorhythm and instant art. I would leave one database driven application (cdcol) and maybe two or three new applications covering up to date techniques and topics (like Websockets, PHPUnit or emailing). They should all get independend database users (if needed) with only this permissions the application really needs (best practice).

I would like to see the XAMPP Welcome page to be a greater help for developing. We need ressources and tools that provide a more helpful platform.I would like to see a project management / issue tracker in XAMPP welcome page, like traQTutorials on the following topics would be great;- Integrating different PHP versions in XAMPP (with FCGI and changing the current PHP version for a folder by .htaccess)- activating/configurating XDebug- activating/configurating PHPUnit- ...

Ideas ideas ideas, but i don't have enough time by myself

We don't provide any support via personal channels like PM, email, Skype, TeamViewer!

Thanks for your feedback! We will include these new "how-to" guides in a Beta section in the current Welcome page so users can also contribute with their suggestions in this thread. We will check the permissions issue for OS X (it seems an issue instead of a how-to guide) and the issues that Altrea mentioned with the current application.

there is something broken in this welcome page. the phonebook menu is having an error, there is the message :

Warning: SQLite3::query(): Unable to prepare statement: 1, no such table: users in C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\phonebook.php on line 70Fatal error: Call to a member function fetchArray() on boolean in C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\phonebook.php on line 73

i thing there is missing database on cdcol but after i read the code(phonebook.php) they are using sqlite.and i check on php info panel there is report about sqlite :pdo_sqlitePDO Driver for SQLite 3.x enabledSQLite Library 3.8.4.3 PDOPDO support enabledPDO drivers mysql, sqlite

sqlite3SQLite3 support enabledSQLite3 module version 0.7-devSQLite Library 3.8.4.3Directive Local Value Master Valuesqlite3.extension_dir no value no value

"The following guides are available for Windows and Linux in the current versions: ..."You made the claim that those new guides are available with the latest release, but they cannot be found not even via Google. So where are they or when will they be available?

After installing the new Xampp, from the control panel, I clicked the Apache "admin" button. Instead of the useful set of tools for testing and configuring, I got the new "dashboard" that has NO way of doing functions I needed and am accustomed to doing. Where did it go? I checked the /htdocs/xampp directory and found it to be empty???!!! Where has the functionality gone?